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10-12-2023, 11:09 AM
Trump appears to knock Israeli intel failure, says ‘Bibi let us down’ during killing of Quds Force chief
JACOB MAGID (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jacob-magid/)
12/10/2023
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Republican presidential candidate former US president Donald Trump speaks Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Former US president Donald Trump appears to knock Israel for failing to anticipate the weekend Hamas onslaught.
“You talk about the intelligence or you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the last week, they’ve got to straighten it out because they’re fighting potentially a very big force.
They’re fighting potentially, Iran,” the GOP presidential frontrunner says during a campaign rally in West Palm Beach. “When they have people saying the wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people because they’re vicious and they’re smart. And boy, are they vicious because nobody’s ever seen the kind of sight that we’ve seen.”
“They cannot play games,” he continues. “They’ve got to strengthen themselves up.”
He makes the comments while recalling his administration’s 2020 assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the then-head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force.
Trump reiterates his claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to provide the US assistance in the killing.
“I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down.
That was a very terrible thing. We were very disappointed, but we did the job ourselves, and it was absolute precision, magnificent, beautiful job,” he says. “Then Bibi tried to take credit for it. That didn’t make me feel too good. But that’s all right.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-appears-to-knock-israeli-intel-failure-says-bibi-let-us-down-during-killing-of-quds-force-chief/
JACOB MAGID (https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jacob-magid/)
12/10/2023
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Republican presidential candidate former US president Donald Trump speaks Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Former US president Donald Trump appears to knock Israel for failing to anticipate the weekend Hamas onslaught.
“You talk about the intelligence or you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the last week, they’ve got to straighten it out because they’re fighting potentially a very big force.
They’re fighting potentially, Iran,” the GOP presidential frontrunner says during a campaign rally in West Palm Beach. “When they have people saying the wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people because they’re vicious and they’re smart. And boy, are they vicious because nobody’s ever seen the kind of sight that we’ve seen.”
“They cannot play games,” he continues. “They’ve got to strengthen themselves up.”
He makes the comments while recalling his administration’s 2020 assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the then-head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force.
Trump reiterates his claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to provide the US assistance in the killing.
“I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down.
That was a very terrible thing. We were very disappointed, but we did the job ourselves, and it was absolute precision, magnificent, beautiful job,” he says. “Then Bibi tried to take credit for it. That didn’t make me feel too good. But that’s all right.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-appears-to-knock-israeli-intel-failure-says-bibi-let-us-down-during-killing-of-quds-force-chief/